CyberWire Daily

CyberWire Daily

The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.

Episodes

Cybercrime has a hefty price tag.

July 10, 2025 • 35 mins
UK police make multiple arrests in the retail cyberattack case.  French authorities arrest a Russian basketball player at the request of the U.S. A German court declares open season on Meta’s tracking pixels. The European Union unveils new rules to regulate artificial intelligence. London’s Iran International news confirms cyberattacks from Banished Kitten. Treasury sanctions a North Korean hacker over fake IT worker schemes. Micro...
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Plug-ins gone rogue.

July 9, 2025 • 29 mins
Patch Tuesday. An Iranian ransomware group puts a premium on U.S. and Israeli targets. Batavia spyware targets Russia’s industrial sector. HHS fines a Texas Behavioral Health firm for failed risk analysis. The Anatsa banking trojan targets financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Hackers abuse a legitimate commercial evasion framework to package infostealer payloads. Researchers discovered malicious browser extensions infecti...
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Memory leaks and login sneaks.

July 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Researchers release proof-of-concept exploits for CitrixBleed2. Grafana patches four high-severity vulnerabilities. A hacker claims to have breached Spanish telecom giant Telefónica. Italian police arrest a Chinese man wanted by U.S. authorities for alleged industrial espionage. Beware of a new ransomware group called Bert. Call of Duty goes offline after reports of RCE vulnerabilities. President Trump's spending bill allocates hun...
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SafePay, unsafe day.

July 7, 2025 • 37 mins
Ingram Micro suffers a ransomware attack by the SafePay gang. Spanish police dismantle a large-scale investment fraud ring. The SatanLock ransomware group says it is shutting down. Brazilian police arrest a man accused of stealing over $100 million from the country’s banking system. Qantas confirms contact from a “potential cybercriminal” following its recent customer data breach. The XWorm RAT evolves to better evade detection. Cy...
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Swati Shekhar: Challenges increase your risk appetite. [Engineering] [Career Notes]

July 6, 2025 • 11 mins
Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Ground Labs' Head of Engineering, Swati Shekhar, shares her circuitous route from and back to engineering. Always being interested in leveraging the tools available to solve problems, Swati talks about how she found her place in engineering. She mentions how she had her first real experience with a computer when she was 17 in her first year at college. Aside from being one of 30 young wom...
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Botnet’s back, tell a friend. [Research Saturday]

July 5, 2025 • 22 mins
Please enjoy this encore of Research Saturday. This week we are joined by ⁠⁠Silas Cutler⁠⁠, Principal Security Researcher at ⁠⁠Censys⁠⁠, asking the important question of "Will the Real Volt Typhoon Please Stand Up?" The FBI's disruption of the KV Botnet in December 2023, attributed to the Chinese threat group Volt Typhoon, targeted infected systems but did not affect the botnet's control infrastructure. Despite law enforcement ...
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 Turning data into decisions. [Deep Space]

July 4, 2025 • 50 mins
Please enjoy this encore from our T-Minus Space Daily segment Deep Space. Parker Wishik⁠ from ⁠The Aerospace Corporation⁠ explores how experts are turning data into decisions in the space industry on the latest Nexus segment. Parker is joined by⁠ Jackie Barbieri⁠, Founder and CEO of ⁠Whitespace⁠, and Dr. Steve Lewis, Leader of The Aerospace Corporations’s ⁠SPEAR team⁠. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favo...
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Secure Your Summer: Top Cyber Myths, Busted [Threat Vector]

July 4, 2025 • 38 mins
While the N2K CyberWire team is observing Independence Day in the US, we thought you'd enjoy this episode of Threat Vector from our podcast network. Listen in and bust those cyber myths. In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton talks with Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director of the National Cybersecurity Alliance. Lisa shares insights from this year’s “Oh Behave!” report and dives into why cybersecurity habits remain uncha...
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The bug that let anyone in.

July 3, 2025 • 32 mins
Sudo patch your Linux systems. Cisco has removed a critical backdoor account that gave remote attackers root privileges. The Hunters International ransomware group rebrands and closes up shop. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notifies 103,000 people that their personal data was compromised. NimDoor is a sophisticated North Korean cyber campaign targeting macOS. Researchers uncover a massive phishing campaign usi...
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Houken blends stealth and chaos.

July 2, 2025 • 38 mins
French authorities report multiple entities targeted by access brokers. A ransomware group extorts a German hunger charity. AT&T combats SIM swapping and account takeover attacks. A Missouri physician group suffers a cyber attack. Qantas doesn’t crash, but their computers do. Researchers uncover multiple critical vulnerabilities in Agorum Core Open. A student loan administrator in Virginia gets hit by the Akira ransomware group. Th...
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North Korea’s covert coders caught.

July 1, 2025 • 30 mins
The Feds shut down a covert North Korean IT operation. Google releases an emergency update to fix a new Chrome zero-day. A major U.S. trade show and event marketing firm suffers a data breach. NetScaler patches a pair of critical vulnerabilities. A sophisticated cyber attack targets The Hague. An Iran-linked hacking group threatens to release emails allegedly stolen from aides to President Trump. A ransomware attack exposes sensiti...
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U.S. braces for Iranian cyber intrusions.

June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
CISA warns organizations of potential cyber threats from Iranian state-sponsored actors.Scattered Spider targets aviation and transportation. Workforce cuts at the State Department raise concerns about weakened cyber diplomacy. Canada bans Chinese security camera vendor Hikvision over national security concerns.Cisco Talos reports a rise in cybercriminals abusing Large Language Models. MacOS malware Poseidon Stealer rebrands.Resear...
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Jamil Jaffer: You should run towards risk. [Strategy] [Career Notes]

June 29, 2025 • 8 mins
Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships, and Corporate Development at IronNet Cybersecurity, Jamil Jaffer, shares how his interest in technology brought him full circle. Always a tech guy, Jamil paid he way through college doing computer support. Jamil went to law school and worked in various jobs in Washington DC including a stint in the newly-created National Security division ...
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A tale of two botnets. [Research Saturday]

June 28, 2025 • 24 mins
This week we are joined by Kyle Lefton, Security Researcher from Akamai, who is diving into their work on "Two Botnets, One Flaw - Mirai Spreads Through Wazuh Vulnerability." Akamai researchers have observed active exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a critical RCE vulnerability in Wazuh, by two Mirai-based botnets. The campaigns highlight how quickly attackers are adapting proof-of-concept exploits to spread malware, underscoring th...
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Turbulence in the cloud.

June 27, 2025 • 37 mins
Hawaiian Airlines reports a cybersecurity incident. Microsoft updates its Windows Resiliency Initiative after the 2024 CrowdStrike crash. CitrixBleed 2 is under active exploitation in the wild. Researchers disclose a critical vulnerability in Open VSX. Malware uses prompt injection to evade AI analysis. A new report claims Cambodia turns a blind eye to scam compounds. Senators propose a ban on AI tools from foreign adversaries. An ...
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No panic—just patch.

June 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Patches, patches and more patches.A patient death has been linked to the 2023 ransomware attack on an NHS IT provider. U.S. authorities indict the man known online as “IntelBroker”. A suspected cyberattack disrupts Columbia University’s computer systems. A major license plate reader company restricts cross-state data access after reports revealed misuse of its network by police agencies. Our guest is Andy Boyd, former Director of C...
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Open-source, open season.

June 25, 2025 • 32 mins
Cybercriminals target financial institutions across Africa using open-source tools. Threat actors are using a technique called Authenticode stuffing to abuse ConnectWise remote access software. A fake version of SonicWall’s NetExtender VPN app steals users’ credentials. CISA and the NSA publish a guide urging the adoption of Memory Safe Languages. Researchers identify multiple security vulnerabilities affecting Brother printers. Fa...
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Iran’s digital threat after U.S. strikes.

June 24, 2025 • 31 mins
Cybersecurity warnings about possible Iranian retaliation have surged. A potential act of sabotage disrupts the NATO Summit in The Hague. Canadian cybersecurity officials discover Salt Typhoon breached a major telecom provider. The U.S. House bans WhatsApp from all government devices. APT28 uses Signal chats in phishing campaigns targeting Ukrainian government entities. A China-linked APT has built a covert network of over 1,000 co...
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Iran’s digital retaliation looms.

June 23, 2025 • 36 mins
US warns of heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks. Cyber warfare has become central to Israel and Iran’s strategies. Oxford City Council discloses data breach. Europe aiming for digital sovereignty. Michigan hospital network says data belonging to 740,000 was stolen by ransomware gang. RapperBot pivoting to attack DVRs. A picture worth a thousand wallets. New Zealand’s public sector bolsters cyber defenses. On our Industry Voices...
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Jadee Hanson: Cybersecurity is a team effort. [CISO] [Career Notes]

June 22, 2025 • 10 mins
Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Jadee Hanson, CIO and CISO at Code 42, started her technology journey thanks to the help of a teacher in high school. She began college studying computer science and ended with a degree in computer information systems as it had more of the business side. Working in the private sector for companies such as Deloitte, Target and Code 42, Jadee gained experience and specialized in insider ris...
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